Mina sighed tiredly, now she had to go through lessons feeling this bad. But she didn't really regret it, seeing Teddy's face had made it worth it. She wondered what they'd said to each other, because he was now in deep thought and glanced at her every now and then. Had they said something about her? But she gave up on trying to figure it out, she was too tired right now, doing what she did took a lot of energy and focus and next she had DADA, which they would probably have to do practising spells in, god she didn't have the energy for it. She closed her eyes. Telling herself she was just resting them, she wasn't going to fall asleep
"Teddy there you are mate" She heard Teddy's friend Mark call out. She felt him turn next to her to see his friends strolling towards them from the portrait.
"Hey guys" He replied softly, he must still be getting over what happened.
"What's wrong? Did you two fight again?" Chris asked, looking from Miley to Teddy with a frown.
"No, it's something else I'll tell you guys later" He told them all as they sat down on the remaining seats.
"Is she asleep?" Greg asked and she decided to pretend that she was.
"Well she should be tired after what she just did for me" Teddy told them.
"What was it?" Adam quiried
"She let me speak to my mother. Through her..." Was the short reply and there was silence for a little while.
"Oh okay" Greg replied calmly and Mina smiled even though she tried hard not to
"So you're not alseep, why you little..." Mark suddenly exclaimed, damn they must have noticed, she opened her eyes
"I was resting my eyes, I've very-yawn-tired" She told them all, closing her eyes again and letting her head fall onto Teddy's shoulder, she half expected him to pull away but he thankfully didn't
"Wheres Tora?" Mark asked her, interested. Mina smiled again knowingly
"Your crush is with her boyfri-" She started but there was a sudden noise and she looked up to see Mark had flown out of his seat and was looking at her with wide eyes
"Who?-Name?-Who?" He rambled comically. Mina frowned, he wasn't going to like this
"Maxxi Zambini" She muttered.
"Didn't hear you..." He pressed
"Maxxi Zambini" She said louder and saw his eyes darken in anger.
"She can have any guy she wants and she choses that man whore!?" He yelled. Mina put her hands up in defence
"Hey I told her not to, but she ignored me. So I satisfied myself by telling him I'll cut his balls off if he hurts her" She told him and he calmed down a little, he sat down but then frowned and looked at Mina
"She hasn't-hasn't...done anything with him has she?" He asked tentatively. She took pity on him
"She hasn't slept with him, but from what she's told me...which is everything, they have gone further than just kissing. She's no slut, he'll have to pull out his A game to get her to even consider getting into his bed." She told him comfortingly. He relaxed and leant back in his chair.
Just then another Gryffindor came in. Grace Paterson. Humming to herself before she saw the group and stopped, she went a little pink before swanning over, hips swaying too much. She sat on the arm-rest next to Mina
"Hey Mina. What are you guys talking about?" She said, twirling a lock of brown hair between her fingers and glancing at Chris. Mina raised an eyebrow
"Why are you speaking to me? You never talk to me" She told the girl, who looked at her blankly for a minute before giggling
"Don't be silly Mina I always talk to you." She told her, obviously trying to get the Mina to go along with her.
"Well then I must have memory loss because the last thing you said to me was in first year when me and Tora tried to make friends with you and you said 'like I need you two as my friends, I would like go so lower in popularity if I even like totally chatted to you in public...oh and sort out your hair' and I like my hair how it is, bimbo" Mina deadpanned, putting on a high pitched voice.
The boys all laughed and Grace huffed before standing up and she shot a wink at a startled Chris before going up the girls' staircase.
"That was fun!" Mina exclaimed, clapping her hands happily.
"You share a dorm with her?" Chris said, pointing after the brunette
"Unfortunately"
He sighed in dramatic sympathy, "You poor thing" He exclaimed and she chuckled.
"I'm guessing she likes Chris then" Adam said sarcastically, it earned him a pillow in the face.
"Adam you're supposed to be a chaser, how did you not catch that?" Teddy asked, now feeling better.
This earned Teddy two pillows in the head, one from Mark and one from Adam.
"Ouch" He cried and grabbed the pillow from beside him and chucked it at Mark. Miley moved her head from his shoulder with a small smile and watched as Greg sneakily walked behind a still laughing Chris and hit him on the head with a large cushion, she chuckled.
Adam stood and threw a cushion frizbee style at Mark who managed to catch it and chucked it straight back, Teddy sprung up from his seat and caught Greg in the side of the head with his cushion.
It was now full on war. There were pillows everywhere until finally Teddy was the only one standing and he threw his arms up in truimph, his hair going to blonde in elation.
"I win!" He cried childishly.
This was when Mina decided to have a little fun, she grabbed a stray cushion, stood up and hit Teddy round the head with it, he stumbled forwards and a tired looking Mark tripped him up.
Mina threw an arm up in celebration and Mark pushed a pouting Teddy off of him to stand and hold her arm up
"We have a winner!" He yelled and they all clapped, except Teddy
"Aren't you happy for me Teddy?" She asked, putting on her best puppy dog eyes and pouting.
He scowled, he now really really wanted to kiss her, damn her!
"You vixen" He exclaimed and threw a random pillow at her, it missed by inches and she smiled at him before throwing it back, it hit him in the side.
"Teddy you're supposed to be a beater, how did you not catch that?" She mocked and the guys all laughed as Teddy pouted again
"Minx" He called out, pulling his tongue out, she returned the gesture before yawning loudly. He rolled his eyes and stood up before pushing her down into a seat and taking the one next to her.
"I promised mum I'd help you for the next few days because of how you're tired from what you did" He explained softly.
She nodded and smiled sweetly
"Awwww" Came a sudden chorus and they both turned to see Teddy's friends looking at them with gooey-lovey-dovie eyes, Teddy chuckled good naturedly while Mina flushed and put a pillow over her face.
But their friendly and more than friendly moment was ruined
"Stupid twat stop following me!" This yell was very familiar to Mina and she turned to find a seething Tora arguing with her boyfriend...not for long Mina thought in a sing-song voice.
"Babe don't jump to conclusions here" The incredably good looking boy asked, trying to reason with her.
"Jump to conclusions? Jump to conclusions!" She yelled, black hair flying and brown eyes almost emmitting sparks.
"Just like you were jumping down that Ravenclaw slut's throat! Oh but wait you tripped and accidentally landed on top of her on that desk and tried to help her up with your tongue" She continued, slowly walking towards the now very scared lady killer.
"You messed with the wrong girl, Maxxi Zabini. No one messes with me. No one! I will not cry over you or ignore this betrayal, I will get revenge!" She cried, glaring at him while he stood in shock, staring wide eyed at her.
She then turned and walked towards the girls staircase but when she was on the first step she turned back
"Maxxi, you are going to wish you had never messed with me. Oh and you have a small dick, bye love muffin" She told him sweetly, relishing it when he went bright red as she walked up the rest of the stairs and out of sight.
By this time Mark was in stitches, he'd fallen from his seat onto the floor and was clutching his sides as he rolled around in mirth.
"Zabini?" Mina called from her seat, he turned to look at her dazedly.
"You know my promise about hurting Tora and you losing two very special parts of your anatomy?" He nodded, backing away.
"Well I've come to collect them" She finished, standing up and watching in glee as he shrieked and ran out of the room
"It's so fun messing with people's heads. See you guys later I'm going to go see if Tora is okay." She waved good bye to them all and followed her friend's footsteps up the stairs.
As soon as she was out of earshot the taunts started
"Ooh Teddy's got a girlfriend!" Adam cried, jumping up and down in his seat.
"No I haven't, we're friends" Teddy argued, but he was still smiling just a little.
"And I am the Queen of all of England" Mark cried, obviously in a good mood that Tora had ditched Maxxi.
"Well then hello Elizabeth but there is no way I am bowing down to you mate" Teddy retorted smugly
"Wasn't what you were saying last night babe" Mark replied throatily, he batted his eyelashes and winked. They all cracked up at that.
Then the bell went
"Well back to hell we go. Potions with Slytherin." Adam said with a sigh, each year one of them drew the short straw and was forced to learn their timetables so at least one of them knew it. It was Tradition.
"If he thinks that I'm all talk then he has another thing coming!" They heard Tora yelled.
"She's hot when she's angry" Mark suddenly claimed and they all shook their heads.
The two girls came down the stairs, Tora looked like she could shoot flames from her eyes and Mina looked pretty annoyed aswell, but Teddy guess that was because she was tired, but also as her best friend was pissed off so it was her job to be aswell.
They both flew through the common room and out of the door too fast for even Mark to say something.
"That guy sure is in for it. Almost feel bad for him" Greg sighed falsely.
"You should because he hurt Tora, I'm not going to over look that either. So now he's got her fiery temper and me to look out for, not that he knows this yet." Mark told them all seriously. Obviously he was quite protective of her and even though he was happy they were no longer together Maxxi had hurt her, so pay back was needed.
They all collected up their stuff and Chris waved his wand to set thew cushions straight before they started the walk to Potions.
Suprisingly they were not the last ones there, infact only Mina and Tora were in the classroom when they arrived. The pair had their heads together and seemed to be plotting.
The boys sat in the two rows of seats behind the pair on the 'Gryffindor' side of the classroom. and Teddy and Mark (being the closest to the girls) tried to listen in. But they could only hear small parts
"...So we'll need to go down to the kitchens for that..."
"...of course we could just do it ourselves but he'd know it was us if we don't have an alibi..."
But then people started to come in and what little hope they had of hearing anything was gone.
The whole room was soon buzzing and everyone kept glancing towards Tora, who was now leant back in her chair lazily.
"So is it true Maxxi dumped you?" A Slytherin girl called out and people looked from Maxxi's hung head to Tora.
"Nope I dumped him after I saw him kissing a Ravenclaw girl, didn't look like she was enjoying it much though..." Tora called back cooly and the Gryffindors started to laugh while the Slytherins didn't want to believe her.
"Can't even keep some random slut happy Zabini? Losing your touch?" Mark called out, enjoying the laughter from the red and gold side and Maxxi's clenched fists.
"Settle down children, sorry for my lateness but there was a teacher's meeting I had to attend which ran over a little" The sudden deep voice of Professor Hurley boomed out and everyone went quiet.
Some people rolled their eyes, everone knew Professor Hurley and Professor McCoy were dating secretly, and today the students could even see a love bite on his neck.
He set them up making Veritaserum and then they saw him look into a small mirror on his desk and gasp. He then excused himself and everyone started to talk.
Tora and Mina put their heads together again and Mark and Teddy saw with satisfaction that Maxxi was looking at the pair nervously every few seconds.
Between them they seemed to be holding them but neither Teddy nor Mark could see what until Mina lent down to put it on the floor. A snake.
She seemed to whisper something to it before it slithered off, but Teddy noticed that Tora looked suprised at Mina and whispered something to her, Mina looked shocked aswell but seemed to brush it off as they all watched the small green snake move its way through the seats and desks towards Maxxi.
After a moment of so the snake disappeared from sight until they heard a scream. From Maxxi.
He jumped up and screamed like a little girl. The laughter was deafening as Mina and Tora hi fived.
He flew from his seat and at seeing the two girls stormed over angrily. He flung the small snake at Mina who caught him softly
"Don't hurt Elmo!" She cried, scandalised as she cradled the poor snake who seemed to have gone into shock.
"I don't care about Elmo! You did this!" He yelled, slamming a hand down on their table. Tora was quite unaffected.
"Yes I did. What will you do about it? Scream like a girl again?" Tora retorted angrily, standing to face him, he took a step back before glaring heavily and returning to his seat.
"You know to walk away, and Maxxi...this is just for starters" She called back happily as their Professor came back into the room...with a Slytherin scarf on.
"Okay class calm down and get on with your work." He called and they all quietened down to muttering amongst themselves.